Eva Maxfield Brown is a PhD candidate at the University of Washington Information School advised by Dr. Nicholas Weber and Dr. Bill Howe. Her research uses novel machine learning, natural language processing, and network analysis techniques to study the development, maintenance, and impact of research software. She is particularly interested in understanding divisions of labor and maintenance-usage imbalance in open source research software ecosystems. With the help of many others, she previously led the development of CouncilDataProject — an easily deployable, generalizable system for municipal government event data processing, archival, search, and, discovery in the hopes of better local government accessibility and accountability. She is also the co-creator of AICSImageIO and now: BioIO, a library for reading and writing microscopy images in Python (including too-large-for-memory images).